Essays Tagged: "Shirley Temple"
"Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison.
as a poor unwanted girl, Pecola Breedlove desires the acceptance and love of society. The image of "Shirley Temple beauty" surrounds her. In her mind, if she was to be beautiful, people would finally ... sical beauty was, she also learned for what it stood. In that time physical beauty was the ideal of Shirley Temple beauty, the equation of blond hair and blue eyes to beauty. It signified equality, ha ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
"The Jade Peony" written by author Wayson Choy.
owing a little about Liang can help bring into light that reason. Being a young girl, Liang admires Shirley Temple, and through the uncomplicated eyes of a child she believes that if she is well manne ... ere will barely be any difference between her; a girl coming from a struggling immigrant family and Shirley Temple who on the other hand is widely famous to the extent to be labeled as "America's Prin ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Amy Tan's "Two Kinds".
s to do everything right. She goes along with her mother's nearly impossible tests, tries to become Shirley Temple's double and generally maintains a good attitude about her mother's constant promptin ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
When Bad Kitties Turn Good
America" (878), and desired that Tan become a child prodigy. She made Tan watch TV and try to mimic Shirley Temple. She would constantly test Tan on various subjects that she believed would make Tan u ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community > Children and Youngsters
Learning to Hate--- The Bluest Eye
eous white girls and hoped someday to become like them. One person she really wanted to be like was Shirley Temple because of her blonde hair and blue eyes. When Pecola moves in with Claudia, she find ... is most definitely not adored by anyone. Maureen became a symbol of beauty to Pecola, comparable to Shirley Temple.In this book Toni Morrison speaks to both whites and blacks. She is trying to show ho ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
"I stand here ironing" half interpretation, half book report
ime when every little girl was supposed to look or thought she should look a cubby blond replica of Shirley temple" (McQuade 75).
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
The story of a man named Shirl - the life and times of Graeme "Shirley" Strachan (from Skyhooks)
Million Dollar RiffThe story of a man named ShirleyGraeme Strachan was born in East Malvern on January 2, 1952. He went to Mt Waverley High, and ... where nicknames were one of life's necessities, and picked up the name he took to nation-wide fame. Shirley - for his curls, like Shirley Temple. It was also at Phillip island where he started "going ... as broke, so he headed back up to Melbourne to work through the winter with his dad.Later that day, Shirley Strachan was a fully-fledged member of a new, promising and modestly ambitious Melbourne ban ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers
Seeing Eye's Interpretive paper
oreign looking at a time when every little girl was supposed to look like a chubby blond replica of Shirley Temple (75). This goes back to the seeing eye idea at the beginning of the story. Emily was ... tiful, but what did her family believe, her mother? Did they think that beauty was a carbon copy of Shirley temple? Emily's beauty continued to remain unseen to the rest of the world and herself.Schoo ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing
"The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison - the perception of "beauty".
mple, and her school friends like Maureen Peal. Pecola, Ms. Breedloves daughters image of beauty is Shirley Temple. White, blonde, tall, and blue eyes, the perception given to her, and unless she achi ... controlled by the parents. Pecola had an image that if she was seen with blue eyes and pretty like Shirley Temple, people wouldn't violate her sexually and mentally. People would actually see her and ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Parents Who Push their Children in relation to Amy Tan's "Two Kinds"
me a prodigy. In the story the mother forces her daughter to try everything from becoming a Chinese Shirley Temple to trying to stand on her head without using her hands. After watching the Ed Sulliva ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community > Children and Youngsters
"The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison - Analysis
ey notice that Pecola had a strange craze to drink milk and a even more strange attraction to their Shirley Temple coffee mug. Claudia fully illustrates how much she hates Shirley Temple and every toy ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
The Bluest Eye
ever, the children were the ones that were affected the worst by the so-called American dream. The "Shirley Temple cup" and the white milk acted as symbols of societies' perceptions of beauty an ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays
The Jade Peony
major parts.In part one, Jook Liang, the only sister, likes people's attention and dreams of being Shirley temple. Unfortunately, girls are considered " useless"� in a traditional Chinese fami ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
The Bluest Eye
aired, blue eyed dolls that "every girl treasured." Pecola Breedlove wants to be the stereotypical "Shirley Temple" thinking that her life would be better, happier.Pecola feels that beauty is the answ ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Two Kinds
es that she did not have. Jing-mei's mother had crazy ideas such as wanting Jing-mei to be the next Shirley Temple to being the next prodigy kid. Jing-mei was okay with this at first, but as her mothe ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
The Relationship Between Mothers And Their Children
e when every little girl was supposed to look to thought she should look a chubby blonde replica of Shirley Temple."(53) This is extremely clearly claiming that the 'normal' was to have light-colored ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays
The Mother of "Two Kinds", a book by Amy Tan
mption onto her daughter. For example, she mentions, "At first, mother thought I could be a Chinese Shirley Temple." (Page 374) With the mother's belief about achievement in America, she had a goal to ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management
The Bluest Eye: Pecola's World
pes her emotionally and wears away at her soul. When Pecola moves in with the MacTeers, she finds a Shirley Temple mug that catches her attention. She begins to drink milk out of it at every opportuni ... complaining about all the milk that Pecola drinks. She takes every chance to drink milk out of the Shirley Temple mug, hoping that it will make her beautiful and make her look like the girl she sees ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
BREEDLOVE?
her inferiority complex and feelings of inadequacy because of their skin color. Her ideal beauty is Shirley Temple who is, in her opinion, adored by all (Tate, C., Black Women Writers at Work, 1985) h ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing
Joseph McCarthy and the Red Scare
irectors. To show how serious they were about this topic the even interrogated ten year old actress Shirley Temple.1 One of the most famous people in the Red Scare was senator Joseph McCarthy. McCarth ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History